When haste makes sense: Cracking down on street markets for illicit drugs

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 293-306

  Baveja, Alok ^a   Caulkins, Jonathan P ^b   Liu, Wensheng ^c   Batta, Rajan ^d   Karwan, Mark H ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 0000163893     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0121(97)00002-5     Document Type: Article

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